A total of 47 families from the Awa indigenous community, belonging to the special indian reservation Ñambi-Piedra Verde, received humanitarian aid from the Victims’ Unit.

After a displacement occurred in the middle of August in the Ñambi - Piedra Verde reservation, 47 families of the Awa ethnic group were located in the village of El Tronco, in the municipality of Barbacoas, Nariño, where they received humanitarian aid in the last few hours from the Victims’ Unit.

Carlos Oscar Figueroa, an official of the Emergency Prevention and Assistance Branch, indicated that humanitarian aid benefited 145 people, 45 families, who are displaced in that locality.

"We bring to this community food kits, hygiene kits and habitat kits, according to the number of members of each family, registered in the census delivered by the authorities of Barbacoas municipality, in the coastal foothills of Nariño; based on these data, the humanitarian aid that is already in the hands of the community was requested, "said Figueroa.

The families that are in the village of El Tronco have been displaced after fighting and threats from armed groups operating in this area of ​​Nariño department. "In compliance with the protocols of law, they have already begun the process to be registered as victims of the conflict," the official said.

The Unit for Victims in Nariño is constantly monitoring to attend in a timely manner to communities affected by conflict that have decided to leave their usual or ancestral territories.